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We Survived The Void’s Ghostbusters Experience

VRScout

But would this temporary New York City version be just a cheesy-knockoff of the real facility in Utah? The technology of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are incredible, but the ability to traverse a physical space, receive haptic feedback from NPC’s and interact with a physical environment is just too mind-blowing to compete with.

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Digital Frontier: Where Brain-computer Interfaces & AR/VR Could One Day Meet

Road to VR

In 1997, a bio engineering professor at the University of Utah named Dr. Richard Norman developed the ‘Utah Array’, an implant with 256 electrodes designed to rigidly attach to the brain. BCI might seem like new-fangled tech, but research has been in the works for longer than you might expect.

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Reveries on The Future of VR

VRScout

More recently, I had the opportunity to try the Ghostbusters experience at the VOID in Utah. Included in this rig is what’s known as a haptic vest which vibrates in the appropriate places when you get hit by objects thrown by the ghosts you’re trying to subdue.

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